Automatically Identifying Good Conversations Online (Yes, They Do Exist!)

Authors

  • Courtney Napoles Johns Hopkins University
  • Aasish Pappu Yahoo! Research
  • Joel Tetreault Grammarly, Incorporated

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v11i1.14959

Abstract

Online news platforms curate high-quality content for their readers and, in many cases, users can post comments in response. While comment threads routinely contain unproductive banter, insults, or users “shouting” over each other, there are often good discussions buried among the noise. In this paper, we define a new task of identifying “good” conversations, which we call ERICs — Engaging, Respectful, and/or Informative Conversations. Our model successfully identifies ERICs posted in response to online news articles with F1 = 0.73 and F1 = 0.91 in debate forums.

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Published

2017-05-03

How to Cite

Napoles, C., Pappu, A., & Tetreault, J. (2017). Automatically Identifying Good Conversations Online (Yes, They Do Exist!). Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 11(1), 628-631. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v11i1.14959

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017): Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Section

Poster Papers